• XLE@piefed.social
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    20 hours ago

    The foolishness was yours

    You don’t need to stoop to insults.

    what if it wasn’t Amazon that was ordering the books

    Then the responsible journalists wouldn’t publish the story. I don’t know why you have so much disdain for this independent group.

    I’d hate to hear your takes when Ed Snowden “illegally” leaked files to journalists.

    I’m thinking about how your concern (which is borderline concern trolling) leaves no way to hold billionaires and their unethical companies accountable.

    Like you said:

    “The ends (in hindsight) justify the means” is not a particularly wise stance.

    Just imagine if we applied this to the AI weirdos.

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      19 hours ago

      Then the responsible journalists wouldn’t publish the story.

      My concern isn’t the story, it’s the “hiding a tracking device in an order with an anonymous party”. That’s an invasion of privacy no matter who it’s done to. You’re presumably only okay with it because you dislike who it was done to, which is why I’m asking you to consider it without hindsight. What if it were done to someone other than Amazon? Do you still support that invasion of privacy? Why or why not?

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        10 hours ago

        Amazon isn’t a person, no corporation is. They should be subject to far more exposure.

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          4 hours ago

          They didn’t know it was Amazon when they hid a tracking device in someone’s order. They suspected, only.

          What if it had been a small bookstore, or just some collector? Do you approve of those people being tracked?

          Are you really not seeing this, or are you pretending to not get it?

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            35 minutes ago

            What if journalists learned the names of innocent people in the Epstein files? Do the ends justify the means??? Oh no!

            The answer to your question is “then the article wouldn’t exist”.

            Your “concern” reads like concern trolling because the only way to satiate it is to shut down the free press, apparently to defend the space billionaire/pedophile billionaire class.